Police are investigating a suspicious house fire at Molendinar this afternoon. Around 5.30pm, police were called to a house on Lillywood Circuit, after neighbours reported hearing an explosion. Emergency services attended and extinguished the fire. There were no occupants inside the building at the time. The building has sustained significant fire and smoke damage. A […]
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Update 3: Homicide investigation, Murrumba Downs
Detectives investigating the suspicious death of a man at Murrumba Downs on Thursday have charged a 39-year-old Eatons Hill man with murder. At about 8.20pm yesterday evening, police declared an emergency situation under the Public Safety Preservation Act for the area around Denver Road in Carseldine. Specialist police entered a hotel room just after midnight […]
Fatal traffic crash, Maleny
Forensic Crash Unit officers are investigating a single vehicle crash at Witta overnight. Preliminary inquires indicate at around 8.40pm a car was traveling west on Maleny-Kenilworth Road when the driver has lost control of the vehicle and it has crashed into some trees. A passenger in the vehicle, a 22-year-old local man, died at the […]
Update 2: Homicide investigation, Murrumba Downs
A man is currently assisting police with their inquires in relation to the suspicious death of man in Murrumba Downs on Thursday. Police declared an emergency situation under the Public Safety Preservation Act (PSPA) at 8.20pm on Friday for the area around Denver Road in Carseldine. Specialist police entered a hotel room just after midnight […]
Emergency situation – PSPA, Carseldine
Police have declared an emergency situation under the Public Safety Preservation Act (PSPA) in Carseldine tonight. The declaration is bounded by Denver Street, Lucinda Street, McCallum Street and Gympie Road. Residents within the exclusion zone are asked to remain indoors as police negotiate with a man. Those outside the zone are asked to avoid the […]
Serious traffic crash, Quanaba
Police are investigating after a car and locomotive collided at a rail crossing at Quanaba this morning. Preliminary information suggests the train, which was towing 10 bins full of sugar cane, was involved in a crash with a sedan on Burnett Heads Road around 11.15am. The force of the impact caused the locomotive and three […]
Update 3: Evade police, Brinsmead
A man has been charged with 32 offences after a stolen ute allegedly failed to stop for police and crashed into a tree near Glenoma Park at Brinsmead on July 11. The male driver of the vehicle allegedly fled the crash on foot and was not able to be located. The ute, which was allegedly […]
Drug operation, Toowoomba
More than 60 people have been charged with more than 150 offences following a police operation targeting drug activity and property crime in Toowoomba. Officers from the Toowoomba Tactical Crime Squad, assisted by other local officers and drug detection dogs from Brisbane, executed 21 search warrants across Toowoomba yesterday. As part of Operation Quebec Trawler, […]
NAIDOC Spotlight: Jenna Lee
Jenna Lee, a keynote speaker at Tuesday’s NAIDOC Week event at QPS Headquarters, is a proud Larrakia woman and the artist behind the Look to the Stars artwork. Twelve months after the project’s purpose-built working group first met in 2017, this NAIDOC Week has seen increased momentum in the state-wide rollout of the artwork. It […]
House fire, Carrara
Police are investigating a suspicious house fire at Carrara this afternoon. Around 1pm, police were advised that a house was on fire at Paul Court, after neighbours reported hearing an explosion. Emergency services attended and extinguished the fire. There were no occupants inside the building at the time. The building has sustained significant fire and […]